Ticket printing, cutting, and stacking machine



Jan. 17, .1928. I 1,656,630

, c. J. GUTBERLET TICKET PRINTING, CUTTING, AND STACKING MACHINE Filed March 24. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 InvenTor.

Char/es JCuTber/el Jan. 11, 1928. 1,656,630

C J. GUTBERLET TICKET PRINTING, CUTTING, AND STACKING MACHINE Filed March 24. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 i C71qr/es JGum-M Patented Jan. 17, 1928.

UNITED STATES CHARLES J. GUTBERLET, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

TICKET PRINTING, CUTTING, "AND STACKING MACHINE.

Application filed March 24, 1926. Serial No. 96,976.

The present machine is designed to print, out and stack a large number of tickets, (as certain small paper sheets for notation are technically called) from a roll of paper. It works continuously; the paper from the roll passing through the printing press, between the continuously revolving printing cylinders, and is afterwards cut to the size of the tickets, and these are deposited and stacked in separate receptacles, the whole work being automatically performed. The machine can be used either where the tickets areidentical, or-when there are a number of difierentforms of. tickets printed at the same revolution of the cylinders; because different forms of tickets can be automatically stacked and collected in different receptacles. The machine is especially intended to produce tickets in large quantities at high speed, and very little labor, the great quantities and exceedingly cheap price demanded by the marketing conditions for these tickets makes such a device very useful.

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the selective mechanism for the stacking of the tickets. Fig. 3 is a plan view of this mechanism and Fig. 4 is a section on line %4 of Fig. 3..

The device has a spindle, 60, for the roll of paper, 1, from which it is 'fed, beneath the idler, 2, and above the idler, 3, to the continuously revolving printing cylinders, 4, and 5, by which it can be printed on either or both sides, the upper cylinder being shown as furnished with the customary ink roller mechanism, 6. The push out rollers, 7, 7, propel the printed sheet forward. This portion of the device does not differ materially from the ordinary rotary press. To this portion of the device is added the mechanism for cutting, the mechanism for conveying and the selective mechanism for stacking the cut tickets in separate stacks, which mechanisms, by their cooperation enable the printing of the tickets, their separation by cutting, and their collection in separate stacks, to be carried on with a great rapidity not hitherto attained. The cutting mechanism consists of rollers, 8, 8, driven in time with each other and with the printing cylinders, 4, and 5, and having cross wise cutters, 90, 90, 91, 91, and, if desired, lengthwise cutters, 92. The feed rollers 9, 9, and 10, 10, are driven slightly faster than the rollers, 8, 8, so as to separate each of the cross wise cut off portions slightly from that following it. The rollers, 9, 9, and 10, 10, can run at substantially the same circumferential velocity, or the rollers, 10, 10, can run at a slightly higher circun'iferential velocity; so that the separation above referred to can be made partly by the rollers, 9, 9, and then increased by the rollers, 10, 10. The mechanism by which the rotation of the rollers, 8,

8, 9, 9, and 10, 10, is produced, is, in practice,

a shaft, 85, driven by the bevel gear wheels, 36 and 37 from the shaft of the cylinder, 4, and by means of bevel gear wheels, 13, 12 and 11, driving the bevel gear wheels, 14, 35,

and 34. he drive rollers, 22, receive the cut olf portions of the printed paper from the rollers, 1O, 10 and present them to the selective stacking mechanism. They are driven from the main mechanism of the press and turned with it. They are carried by the shafts, 20, 20. One of these shafts, 20, drives the devices for operating the select-ivemeans in the stacking mechanism. This means cone sists essentially of the movable deflectors, 81, 81, that are "automatically and successively placed in the path of the travel of the cut off pieces to deflect them downward, into the different compartments, 30, 31, and 32. This action is absolutely necessary in order to allow time for each piece to settle down before another is placed in the same compartment and still permit the press to run at a high speed. These deflectors have the arms, 80, and couplings, 74, by which they are mounted on the spindle, 73. The spindles, 73, 73, are cam operated by the cams, 33, 33, and arms, 72, 72. The cams, 33, 33 are set on the shaft, 29, which is driven from the shaft, 20, by the bevel pinions, 23, and 67. The cut off portions of paper are carried across the selective stacking device by suitable carrying devices which are interrupted at each deflector. Such carrying devices very conveniently may be tapes carried by the rollers, 66, 66, 66, and tapes, 70, 70, 71, 71, 77, 77, the rollers being driven by pulleys, 82, and 84, and carrying the driving pulleys, 83, and 185, and belts, 75, and 76.

The cams, 33, 33 are setand timed to form of my device illustrated (see especially Fig. 2) the signal arm, 129, which signals the position of the deflector t0 the operator is raised showing that the deflector, 81, to which it is connected is raised into a position free from the path of the paper, which will pass under it ulldetlected. The signal arm, 1 9, shows that the deflector, 81, to which it is attached is lowered, and the paper is deflected downward. If it were raised, the paper would continue its path and fall into the farthest receptacle. As the cam shaft 87 turns, first, the deflectors are both raised, and the cut oil' paper portion passes into receptacle, 30, then the deflector above receptacle, 31, is lowered and the next cut off piece of paper is deflected into it; then the deflector over receptacle, 32, is lowered, and the next cut oil piece deposited in it; then both deflectors are raised and the operation is repeated. The numbers of compartments and deflectors varies according to the kind of stock used, a larger nlnnher being requisite with a light thin stock than with a heavier and thicker.

The compartnlents are in practice sloped downward away from the press which usually will stack the deposited tickets which the operator of the press can remove from time to time.

I claim:

1. In a machine for printing, cutting and stacking tickets, wherein the ticket sheets are cut transversely into segments and carried laterally to the stacker, a selective stacking mechanism including dilierentially speeded rollers for separating from each other the segments so cut, in combination With a plurality of receiving compartments, alternately operated guides positioned adjacent to said compartments, and in the path of travel of saidticketsegments and mechanism operating alternately said guides.

2. In a machine for printing, cutting and stacking tickets, wherein the ticket sheets are cut transversely into segments and carried laterally to the stacker, a selective stacking mechanism including diiterentially speeded rollers for separating from each other the segments so cut, in combination with a plurz'ility of receiving compartments, of series of pivoted alternately operating guides positioned adjacent to said compartments, and at successive portions of the path of travel of said ticket segments, and n1ecl1anism operating alternately said guides and supporting the ticket segments at points be tween them.

3. The device as defined in claim 1, in combination with signalling devices showing the positions of the guides.

i. In a machine for printing, cutting and stacking tickets. wherein the ticket sheets are cut transversely and carried laterally to the stacker, :1 selective stacking mechanism inchuling differentially speeded rollers for separating from each other the segments so cut, in combination with a plurality of receiving con'ipartnients placed beneath the plane of travel of the segments and be neath successive portions of the same, alternately operated guides positioned adjacent to said compartments and in the path of travel of said ticket segments and depressing same alternately, and mechanism op erating alternately said guides and having supports for ticket scgn'ients between the guides.

CHAS. J. GUTBERLET. 

